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Oh, hello, Ophira Eisenberg from NPR's Ask Me Another.

Hello, Judd of the Colton. I wasn't sure if you were going to be up and around because I was wondering how, you know, happy, happy next day birthday.

Yeah, it's my birthday was yesterday and you're right, man. I'm moving a little slow because...

What a party.

Party at home. Yeah. Yeah. No, it was lovely. Thank you.

There's been a lot of birthdays, by the way, in the last year. I don't know if I told you this, but I was like looking at Facebook and I was like,

God, how many people were bored in? And then I was like, the last eight months.

Yeah, right. Right. Probably about three quarters of the people in the world were born on something.

All I ever see is birthdays on Facebook. How many people were there's like, oh, no, it's just that this is a...

I've been in a holding pattern for eight months. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah. So for a milestone birthday, milestone birthday?

It's a birthday with a zero at the end and I am not 20. Okay. So it's milestone birthday.

So did you have any visions before your birthday? Let's say like at your last birthday, what you wanted for this birthday?

I am so old and I have given up in so many ways I cannot even remember.

I was trying to describe this phenomenon. It's like I've gotten to the age now where it's more, it's less about like a what are my hopes for the future.

And it's more about sort of accepting like, oh, this is how it is now. What can I deal with? What can I deal with that I have?

I guess I'm going to have to continue to work these truths into my life because here they are again a year later.

Okay. So no expectation. You had no expectations going into the birthday.

Obviously. And because it's pandemic, you know, what could you expect anyways?

Yeah. Well, so here's what here's what happened. I was at home. My daughter asked me a couple of days ago, what is your favorite kind of cake?

And I knew why she was asking. You're like, are we doing a bake off?

And we watched a movie. So it was a pretty low key. But it was lovely, you know, family, family time. And I will say also that my daughter wrote on the cake.

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